DARPA-based Siri virtual assistant hits the App Store, smartphone sentience can’t be far behind (video)

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Tim Stevens.
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It's been well over six months since we first got wind of Siri, the DARPA-inspired smartphone app that pledged to take all the hassle out of... well... life. It's a virtual assistant that can take care of menial tasks, things like finding restaurants, hearing reviews, and even booking tables -- all with your voice. Siri asks simple questions and reacts to your answers, and while it sadly seems to have lost some of its military feel since its DARPA days (bummer), it's a lovely companion to your happening lifestyle. Plus it's free, and free is good! Check out a demonstration video after the break, and hit up the App Store to make with the download. Meanwhile, if you're on some other smartphone platform you'll have to wait. We fully expect Siri will break free of its current monotasking abode sometime in the future, but we don't know when. We just don't know when.

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AT&T’s iPad Deal Due to Carrier’s Aggressive Pricing Strategy

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iPhone icons in felt keychain form

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Unfortunately these guys are already sold out (though maybe there'll be more soon), but I'm still posting them here just to gaze on their awesomeness -- Etsy user Rabbitrampage put together these six iPhone icon keychains (well, five iPhone and one Finder) out of felt, thread, and fiber fill. I think they look great, though it would be nice to have even more custom icons available. I guess if you want a special icon keychain made of your own app (ahem), you'll have to make it yourself.

This same Etsy user also enjoys wrapping your iPhone in felt recreations of old retro items like Game Boys and even a VHS tape. I've already got a case on my iPhone, but if I didn't have one yet, I'd definitely pick up one of these.

[via iPhone Savior]

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Cisco adding iPhone app for voice-over-Wi-Fi

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Cisco plans to add voice-over-Wi-Fi capabilities to its existing iPhone app by April, part of a continuing effort to expand its unified communications technology into the mobile space.

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iPhone 3GS Users Can’t Restore to iPhone OS 3.1.2 as Apple Has Stopped Signing Firmware Files

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Review: Moodagent for iPhone

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If you find yourself listening to the same songs over and over again on your iPhone and iPod touch, this free app is a great way to get out of your musical rut. Moodagent can build playlists that reflect your current emotional state.

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Verizon is Back with 3 More Anti AT&T TV Spots

Posted on by Jeremy Sikora.
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Verizon is once more firing back at AT&T’s 3G ads by releasing three more TV spots titled “Big Red”, “Sail” and “Shadows”. You will see that two of the three ads are actually spoofs of classic commercial campaigns. “Big Red” spoofs those Big Red gum commercials while “Shadows” spoofs DaBeers Diamonds are forever commercials.

Verizon just loves to try to push what seems to be it’s only advantage over AT&T, more 3G coverage. Once AT&T proceeds with their plans to enhance their network and coverage what will happen to these commercials? What then will Verizon have over AT&T? Sound off in the comments below!

Commercials after the break!

[Thanks for the tip Bruce!]

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Verizon is Back with 3 More Anti AT&T TV Spots


Steve Jobs Shows Up in Top Hat to Show off iPad to New York Media Bosses?

Posted on by Rene Ritchie.
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Silicon Alley Insider not only says Steve Jobs showed up to show off his new iPad in a secret set of meetings in New York with New York Times and Wall Street Journal bosses, but he topped it off by wearing a top hat. Yeabuwhat?!

More intriguing: Jobs showed up wearing “a very funny hat – a big top hat kind of thing,” said Daily Intel’s source. So apparently the obsessively secretive Apple chief was disguised as the Planter’s Peanut guy for his trip to Gotham, with his John Lennon spectacles replacing the Peanut’s usual monocle. We’re told, however, that Jobs was wearing no plutocratic hat or other headgear for his visit to the Times newsroom, which, given his already all-too-imperious image, is probably for the best.

Just. Wow.

More importantly, Jobs was apparently there to discuss adding magazines and newspapers to the new iBook service announced last week along with the iPad.

Ask and we shall receive?

[Thanks to The Reptile for the tip!]

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AT&T Approves SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone App to Stream Live TV Over 3G

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Steve Jobs Rumored to Have Recently Traveled to New York for iPad Media Talks [Updated]

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Steve Jobs Rumored to Have Recently Traveled to New York for iPad Media Talks

Silicon Alley Insider reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs apparently traveled to New York City in recent days to meet with executives at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for discussions about bringing their content to the iPad.<p class="q...

Skype to Release 3G Version of iPhone App “Real Soon”; Still No Update On Push Notifications

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Win a 32GB iPod touch! (Survey)

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Developers take note: Interpret is looking to find a bit more about you and they have a brief survey to do just that – finish it, enter your info at the end, and be entered into a drawing for a FREE 32GB iPod touch. Non-developers, feel free to take part to be entered as well. Either way, go on and let ‘em know how you’re feeling about mobile apps these days.

Click here to take the survey and enter for your chance to win!

(Keep in mind the survey is being run by the folks at Interpret, not everybody who takes the survey may be eligible to finish it. If you don’t qualify, fret not, we’re giving away an iPhone 3GS next week for the Smartphone Round Robin, here’s the latest forum thread for you chance to win)

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AT&T allows SlingMedia to stream over 3G

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AT&T has announced that it will now support SlingPlayer Mobile over its 3G wireless network, freeing Sling’s fans from their reliance on Wi-Fi to watch video.

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Apple Reportedly Offering 15% Refunds to Purchasers of Troubled 27-Inch iMacs

As Apple struggles with flickering and yellow-tinting issues on the displays of its 27-inch iMac models, Gizmodo has been continuing to closely follow the situation and has learned that Apple has been offering refunds of 15% of the machine's purchase...

Apple rolls out Web interface for App Store

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The days of the annoying screen telling you iTunes is loading are finally over: Apple is now displaying information about iPhone apps on the Web.

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Review: Assassin’s Creed II for iPhone

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It’s never an easy task to translate a successful console game into an iPhone app, but Gameloft has done an impressive job with Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery.

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Smartphone shipments hit new record in fourth quarter

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Smartphone devices continued to ship at record levels in last year's fourth quarter, reaching 54.5 million, or 39 percent more than last year, according to IDC. Apple now ships the third most smartphones, trailing only Nokia and Research in Motion.

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Google rolls out admin tools for mobile Apps users

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Enterprise administrators will now be able to remotely lock, wipe, and control mobile devices.

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iPhone Skype App Going 3G: “Real Soon”

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For those of you holding your breath for Skype to work over AT&T’s 3G network, you will soon be able to relax as Skype has told TiPb it’s only a matter of time. From their blog:

You may have seen other apps offering calls over 3G, but we’re holding ours back for a little bit longer. Why? So that we can give you the very best audio quality we can. When our 3G-capable Skype for iPhone app is released, it’ll let you make calls in wideband audio, giving you greater clarity and fidelity – because that’s what you expect from Skype.

We’ve been waiting since way back in November, when AT&T decided to allow VoIP over their 3G network, and Apple’s iPhone 3.2 SDK for iPad has now removed the last hurdle.

It’s no surprise we heard earlier that AT&T has been working with Apple to improve their network before the release of the highly anticipated Apple iPad. Perfect timing don’t you think?

More from Skype via video, after the break!

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